Frustrating focus for engineers - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
17 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote position and some offices available

Cons

Genuinely such a frustrating review cycle and product focus. Reorgs into the AI org make no sense when the main driver for joining was to work on large products and product features. I felt like the main products were not being worked on. Over time I see that there are teams working on the main products of course, but it doesn't feel like large features across teams are valued. Instead, the values are completely against TEAM. It's basically how many projects, PR's, tokens used, etc can you do alone rather than how can you successfully deliver value and impact by working with your team and other teams. Also the layoffs and following reorgs were draining.

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
30 Apr 2023
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Pros

Amazing people, I loved the core values, competitive salary, great benefits

Cons

I want to start by saying I am not bitter or angry. Working for Atlassian was a whirlwind. I was there for 11 months before being laid off via email. In my time there, I went through 2 re-orgs and 3 managers. It just always felt like being on a hamster wheel… in a hurricane. Today I received an email 7 weeks after I was laid off that started with, “ Congrats on your first year at Atlassian—we know that's a huge accomplishment and are beyond thrilled to be celebrating with you!” It was a bummer to receive that, to say the least, but it included a link to leave this Glassdoor review to “ help provide invaluable insight to future candidates and help us to improve your experience as an employee continually.” so here I am. My advice is to do proper change management of your automated emails when you layoff 5% of your workforce so that emails like this aren’t sent to hard working former employees that you eliminated congratulating them on a milestone they never reached. I know this wasn’t intentional, but it hurt.

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